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by fyi80 14y ago
Widgets could do this on Android, if Widget makers chose to implement that. For example Facebook's widget is your stream. But most widgets are not very interactive, they are more like app preview snapshots, with a tap to launch the app.
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by fyi80 14y ago
To do something like this on Android, you'd need an API for an app to install a widget. I don't know if that's possible outside of the standard appstore download/install process.
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by fyi80 14y ago
The non-discrete page-flipping (so you can scroll one column at a time, instead of a whole screen) is nice. I don't know any Android launcher that can do that.
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by fyi80 14y ago
To everyone: Take a look at the faculty roster of UCI, and look at where they got there PhDs I don't know about German, but in math and science, most of the top-50 or top-100 university faculties got their PhDs at top-15 universities. If yo
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by fyi80 14y ago
People can work as much or as little as they want, once they make tenure. It's not that different from the startup model: hard work for a few years up front, then cash in your chips, with 2-3 decades of guaranteed income until government re
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by fyi80 14y ago
When has their ever been a research-only professor job? The name of the job is professor , not researcher .
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by fyi80 14y ago
Uh, thanks for the hagiography on Karp. German social philosophy teaches you how to think about privacy concerns in an espionage organization? He's a smart, good-looking guy who has a lot of powerful friends in multiple locations. His knowl
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by fyi80 14y ago
I'm more interested in a story about someone who watched 193 movies each year, than I am about a travel shill who finally collected all the stamps in his passport. It takes all kinds to make a world, friend.
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by fyi80 14y ago
Someone walked every street in NYC, and then had an apprentice who started the same effort. I'm sure there are people who do all the things you mentioned. Example: http://reocities.com/nodotus/hbglass.html
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by fyi80 14y ago
> value to one's life other than some self-centric ego boost. You just discovered the key to happiness, my friend. Everyone gets to make up the rules to the game they play. The beauty of it is that, if I am happy because I am better tha
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by fyi80 14y ago
By the same argument, Gaglers encourages their users to give curt, limited support to the public, since every interaction has marginal cost. I'd rather have an extended conversation with a dedicated support rep, then a 1-line brush off from
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by fyi80 14y ago
It's popular because it's more portable across devices and screen sizes, and designers are too lazy to maintain two sets of UIs, one for fingers and one for mouses.
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by fyi80 14y ago
I get that JavaScript is a popular language, but burying a fundamental concept under a cluttered and confusing syntax like JavaScript, when it's much cleaner to explain the math using sensibly notation. Ugh. It's nice that Steve is reaching
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by fyi80 14y ago
over-18s are adults, and so it should be easier to stick criminal charges on them. Only problem is that victims can't press criminal charges, only the state can. So these laws are purely tools of the corrupt state actors and their cronies.
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by fyi80 14y ago
How can a TOS tell someone (a minor) that the person is forbidden to accept an agreement, while simultaneously holding that person subject to that agreement? It's a paradox in the space-time continuum. Has any court tested the theory that a
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by fyi80 14y ago
YC is an investment fund and business networking program. It provides no technical base. Which is a bid silly, since (1) almost every YC-backed companty uses the the same technical infrastructure as many others, and (2) Paul Graham made his
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by fyi80 14y ago
You know, when people were posting every blog rant about Haskell, at least a small bit of knowledge was being circulated. This bitcoin fad is dredging the bottom of the barrel -- dozens of upvoted comments written by people who can't tell t
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by fyi80 14y ago
Your problem is with YC supporting a company that violates the privacy of dangerous criminals, and not with YC supporting a company that provides a marketplace for selling illegal hazardous products?
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by fyi80 14y ago
This was a pillar of Kazaa's business model and made everyone angry that Kazaa's darknet was sucking up their bandwidth, so be sold by Kazaa.
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by fyi80 14y ago
That's a bug, report it. Chrome makes an effort to queue the tab-loads gracefully.
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by fyi80 14y ago
only if log(n) > 7. Otherwise, subitization gives constant time reading of the magnitude of n.
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by fyi80 14y ago
Real estate is probably covered by another set of laws, as real estate has carefully tracked values, for property taxes.
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by fyi80 14y ago
5% in one day is quite a drop.
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by fyi80 14y ago
This website name is sexist, and therefore it is offensive to share on a technology forum.
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by fyi80 14y ago
Note: "mumbj jumbo" is the term. "mambo jambo" is incredibly racist against Latinos, but I promise not to try to get you fired over it, or call you an "ass clown"
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by fyi80 14y ago
Yes, the "activists" who insert themselves to disrupt other communities to promote their own personal infamy.
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by fyi80 14y ago
It's not "misogyny" to disapprove the actions of a person who happens to be a woman.
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by fyi80 14y ago
If think you are ugly, are you obligated to wear a bag over your face in public?
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by fyi80 14y ago
Eventually, egalitarians will noticed that they are being played the fool by self-serving hate-mongers who care nothing about building a better world, and care everything about picking fights and dragging people down.
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by fyi80 14y ago
It doesn't work both ways, because the employer is not subject to the same external pressures that the employee is. The employer answers to the general public, the employee answers to one easily-scared manager. It's related, but not equival

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